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iLaugh, therefore I exist

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jul 2nd, 2009

Jokes are relative. What's hysterically funny for one person may not even crack a smile on another person's face. iLaugh [App Store], a database of over 50,000 jokes for the iPhone and iPod touch from developer Azure Talon, uses sheer volume of bon mots to ensure that you'll be able to find a funny story for just about every taste.

You can pick from a variety of genres from Animals to Yo Mama!, and turn on/off sex or rude jokes as well as important categories such as Chuck Norris Facts. Each joke or story can receive a thumbs up or down from you and other iLaugh users, and the app allows you to filter out jokes that don't meet a certain minimum score.

Want to share a laugh with friends? iLaugh has Facebook and Twitter buttons that send the joke on to the rest of the world, and you can also use cut & paste on iPhone OS 3.0 devices to email the offending lines to your friends.

All of the chuckles are available for US$0.99, and iLaugh would be a smart purchase to make before those 4th of July picnics.

Tags: app review, app store, AppReview, AppStore, humor, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, jokes

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Retail, Odds and ends, Apple

Full text from "Legal Copy" ad isn't quite PC-specific

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Apr 21st, 2009

You've probably seen all of the new Get a Mac ads we posted about on Sunday, and if you haven't yet, go ahead and watch them now. We'll wait. Just let us know when you're back, we'll be playing a little Zen Bound. Done? If you saw the Legal Copy ad, you know that's the one where as PC makes crazy and crazier statements about PC reliability, the screen fills up with unreadable legal copy. Unreadable, that is, if you're watching on a computer, and not so much if you're watching on a huge HDTV.

And so yes, MacJournals has actually retrieved and reprinted all of the text that appears in that ad. When Hodgman says "PCs are 100% trouble free," there is a long paragraph about how computers are targeted by spyware and malware, and how you have to install software drivers if you want to use any peripherals, how PC users should back up their systems, and how if they are not under warranty, they are not guaranteed a refund or replacement.

But wait a minute, says MDJ, don't those last few notes apply to Macs as well? Are Mac users able to avoid requiring backups, and is Apple trying to say that even after their warranties expire, they'll be giving out refunds and replacements (actually, they sometimes do that, though it's definitely not guaranteed)? Still, if the PC faithful wanted to nitpick -- and where exactly are the PC faithful these days, again? -- there's definitely plenty of nitpicking to do here. It seems like Apple needed to fill out the text for the joke of the ad, but it's too bad they couldn't just stick with PC problems (and there are plenty of those) rather than include some common computer issues in there as well.

[via Aulia Masna]

Tags: ads, apple, get-a-mac, john-hodgman, jokes, justin-long, laptop hunters, LaptopHunters, legal-copy, macs, text

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

iLaugh for iPhone gives you the giggles

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Feb 24th, 2009

Recently updated, iLaugh [iTunes link] for iPhone is the go-to application for all things jokes. This simple application gets jokes from several different sources and allows you to get your laughs anywhere.

You can choose from either gcfl.net, which allows you to read some clean jokes; jokes.com, which can include some explicit jokes; there's also bash.org, which allows you to read funny IRC (Internet Relay Chat) quotes.

If you're looking for a fun application that could provide you with unlimited chortles, then this is the application for you. You can choose between a lite version and a paid version. The lite version provides you with the same functionality, except it includes some ads. The paid version is $1.99US.

Update: The developer has let us know that today there were two new sources added to both the iLaugh paid and free apps. The two sources include Chuck Norris facts in both English and French.

Gallery: iLaugh for iPhone

Tags: App Store, AppStore, funny, iLaugh, jokes, jokes.com

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